Menu: What Is Affiliate Marketing? Picking The Best Products To Promote Affiliate Marketing Promotion Options Affiliate Marketing Promotion Examples Getting Traffic Fast Get A Plan To Make Cash Fast Affiliate Marketing Resources Commission Blueprint Review More to come.... Picking The Best Products To Promote Before you do anything when getting started with affiliate marketing, you've first got to pick the best product to promote. You want to look at... * The sales page where you will be driving traffic * The quality of the product * Commissions * If the product selling well * Affiliate Tools Let's talk about each of these individually. When you join an affiliate program, you'll be given an affiliate link. This is your unique link and any sales made through this link will be tracked to you. The first thing you want to do is check the page your people will be sent to through this link. You'll need to make sure that the site has a nice clean design, easy to navigate, and that it's easy for them to buy the product you are promoting. This is very important because if the page isn't "user friendly" or looks unprofessional, you wont be getting any sales. Now I know I listed the quality of the product second, but this should be the first thing you do. The product must be of high quality or you will have a lot of angry people buying through your link making you look bad. Those people will never buy anything from you again, so always make sure you're promoting a good product. Last but not least, your commissions. Now those are important, right? Make sure you're being paid a good commission. If you're promoting a $37 digital product and only getting a 5% commission, that's not good. Digital products don't have a lot of cost involved, so you should be getting at least a 50% commission. Most digital product publishers pay this kind of commission, and usually even more. Now for physical products you can expect to get from 5%-30% commissions. If you want to make sure you're getting the best commission on a product just take a look at what other similar affiliate programs are paying. If there's a big difference contact the site and ask why. Note: You may even get them to bump your commission. If you're just getting started in affiliate marketing, I highly recommend you start with digital products. They are the easiest to start with and pay the highest commission. A great place to find digital products is at ClickBank.com Now another thing you want to look at is if the product is selling well. For physical products, you'll simply have to contact the webiste or the affiliate manager for the website and ask. If you're promoting digital products through ClickBank.com you can use a service called CB Engine at MySuccessPrints.com/CBEngine CB Engine will allow you to quickly and easily find the best selling offers to promote. I love this site, and use it almost on a daily basis. It's one of those must have tools, if you're going to be getting involved in affiliate marketing. Okay, last but not least. A good affiliate program will provide you with tools you can use to promote their products. Things such as banners, swipe emails, articles, and blog posts, videos, brandable reports, software, squeeze pages and more. Having a lot of affiliate tools will save you tons of time with creating promotional tools, so always check out a site to see if they have tools you can use. Sidenote: In the Commission Blueprint course, you're shown a great way to pick awesome high profit winning products to promote. I recommended this course before, but had to mention here again, because it also covers not only creating a system to promote a product, but will teach you how to pick good products too! You can get it from MySuccessPrints.com/CommissionBlueprint Okay, so once you're product has passed all the tests above, you can be pretty sure you've got something solid to promote. Let's now continue on and talk about the options you have with putting an affiliate promotion together. Affiliate Marketing Promotion Options >>>